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Blog From The Past : Install WebScarab in OpenSUSE 10.1

Having read many articles about the “greatness” of WebScarab as a web application auditting tool, I am eager to install it on my system. As far as I can remember, I’ve already installed it before, but on my other system, and it should already been gone, because my brother already formatted the disk. :D

When I first install the WebScarab installer (webscarab-installer-20070504-1631.jar), the installer run smoothly until it wanted to copy the files. At first I thought this was a download problem, so I download it again, but the problem still persist. I just give the following command :

$ java -jar webscarab-installer-20070504-1631.jar

After thinking for a while, I found out where the problem was. Apparently, the above command (java) is linked to :

/usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.4.2-gcj/bin/java

It is contained in java-1_4_2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0-33 package. From the description :